A Surprising Proportion Of Mathematicians Are Accomplished

Mathematics Is Not Only Real, But It Is The Only Reality. That Is That Entire Universe Is Made Of Matter, Obviously. And Matter Is Made Of Particles. It's Made Of Electrons And Neutrons And Protons. So The Entire Universe Is Made Out Of Particles. Now What Are The Particles Made Out Of They're Not Made Out Of Anything. The Only Thing You Can Say About The Reality Of An Electron Is To Cite Its Mathematical Properties. So There's A Sense In Which Matter Has Completely Dissolved And What Is Left Is Just A Mathematical Structure.

The Last Level Of Metaphor In The Alice Books Is This: That Life, Viewed Rationally And Without Illusion, Appears To Be A Nonsense Tale Told By An Idiot Mathematician. At The Heart Of Things Science Finds Only A Mad, Never-ending Quadrille Of Mock Turtle Waves And Gryphon Particles. For A Moment The Waves And Particles Dance In Grotesque, Inconceivably Complex Patterns Capable Of Reflecting On Their Own Absurdity.

The Greatest Scandal Of The Century In American Psychiatry ... Is The Growing Mania Among Thousands Of Inept Therapists, Family Counselors, And Social Workers For Arousing False Memories Of Childhoood Sexual Abuse.

Modern Science Should Indeed Arouse In All Of Us A Humility Before The Immensity Of The Unexplored And A Tolerance For Crazy Hypotheses.

Mathemagical Mathematics Combines The Beauty Of Mathematical Structure With The Entertainment Value Of A Trick.